Each person on a team brings a unique perspective to the process; i.e., how things work; what happens when changes are made, and how to sustain improvements during daily work. Contributions are made from each individual's skill set and the team's synthesis of ideas.
Division of labor is the economic term for the practice of assigning small parts of a complicated job to individual workers who specialize in doing just their small part.
In a central assumption of scientific management, the worker was taken for granted as a cog in the machinery.. While scientific management had made jobs unpleasant, its successors made them less remunerative, less secure, and finally nonexistent as a consequence of structural unemployment.